Background:A Canberra man launched legal action against his former fiancee in a bid to recoup the money he’d spent on her engagement ring after their relationship broke down.
The man had first contacted the Melbourne woman and her parents with a view to marriage in late 2014 and they got engaged the following year.
But the pair’s relationship soured, partly due to tensions over where they would live, and ended last October.
The man had asked his former fiancee to give back her engagement ring, as well as gifts from his parents, but he claimed the items were never returned.
He took the case to the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal, seeking to recover the cost of the ring and gifts.